The animation for this was more for show then anything else... It was almost like the guy making the tackle had a hoola-hoop that he placed around your man aloowing you to twist, spin or what ever but it never really amounted to much... As for "branching" animations, it simply felt/lloked like they branched oncem only to lead to another generic animation... It wasn't a free flowing as they had once said it was going to be, or what it was supposed to be like...